``I thought about taking up skiing for a while, but nah,`` said the Elgin High School freshman. ``The Ping-Pong table was a tough decision.``

Though Clark is two years and many car insurance payments away from his first driver`s license, he`s keeping the fire-engine-red Toyota Tercel ($9,933). Brother Lance, 16, has graciously offered to don a cap and drive his star sibling anywhere, anytime.

And while Clark can`t yet scoot on his Honda Scooter ($830), he can gaze upon it longingly.

``I took it right up to my bedroom,`` he said. ``I sit on it every night and think of what I could be doing.``

Clark, who has played the video version of Hangman vicariously since he was 7, is the top-winning teen in the history of the 12-year-old show, according to Scott Page, contestant coordinator.

In a single day of taping last July, Clark collected 15 prizes including the car, motorcycle, U.S. Savings Bonds ($7,000), an Australian vacation for four ($7,500) and his-and-her Gucci watches ($550).